The United States of Sapien-Zustand is a huge, orderly nation, remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, complete lack of prisons, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 684 million Sapien-Zustandians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Berlin. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 3.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Sapien-Zustandian economy, worth 106 trillion Dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is an impressive 155,730 Dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,411,802 per year while the poor average 2,013, a ratio of 701 to 1.

Bris parties are all the rage, ceremonial zweihänders are used in holy rituals, new urban roads are threatening city parks, and citizens are arrested for naturally producing proteins. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Sapien-Zustand's national animal is the Black Bear, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Sapien-Zustand is ranked 15,656^th in the world and 267^th in The North Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 7,755.02 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.